Summer polls recap, Part 1

Field Gulls readers used the offseason to provide us with a mountain of data about the past, present and future of Seahawks football

With a game of football on Sunday, the Daily Gulls Poll series ends this weekend. But not without a recap of the most interesting, popular, and surprising results obtained throughout the summer on topics dear to Seattle Seahawks fans such as yourselves. You are Seahawks fans, right?

Today represents a chance to check out again, or for the first time, how certain intriguing polls turned out. But only the ones worth revisiting. There were some duds. Which, duh. You write 85 of these, they’re not all going to hit. But many did.

What I recommend, since you have hours of free time today, is reading through the commentary on a topic that entices you, or that you missed the first time around. My favorites would be the insight provided on the 6/2, 6/7, 6/17 and 7/20 stories. To be honest to a fault, some comment sections are forgettable. In other ones, there are new perpectives being offered. That’s part of the charm of Field Gulls. At our best, we’re pretty awesome.

The take-away is that either you guys were paying more attention in May and June, or I wrote better questions back then. Or both I suppose. Also. You like sad polls. Just accept it. It’s all right.

The 7/11 post about which draftee is on the outs — worth checking back out as camp progresses and surprises lurk around every practice.

Series you might have missed: Coaching support, uniform awesomeness, the all-time Seahawks 53, what ails the NFL, and the plays of the year for 2012 and 2013.

The Bevell and Cable ones are linked above but we also went with a Kris Richard poll. Turns out he’s got plenty of support (38 percent for, 19 percent against). Still. Maybe we’ll check in next summer again and see how the needle’s moved.

Almost all you need to know about the all-time 53 is that the practice squad is loa-oa-oaded.

The main league-wide problems you identified were not the commissioner’s leadership, but instead refereeing, game length and offense-friendly rules. With concussion issues on the margins. The follow-up polls, asking you to provide solutions, can be found here. In case you’re more interested in problem-solving than problem-identifying.

Tomorrow

The controversial polls, the surprising polls, or the questions I just want to spend a few paragraphs on because the results were instructive or fun — you get that batch tomorrow, with actual analysis attached too, possibly.